Winter Bear Hugs

Hello hello,

I have a cuddly winters card for you today that would make a great alternative Christmas card.

Sometimes, for whatever reason, you don't want to send 'Happy' or 'Merry' greetings and this 

way the recipient knows you are thinking of them instead during the festive season. 

This is the adorable image from an older Wplus9 set called Holiday Hugs but I've 

decided to change up the sentiment for a non Christmas vibe. I used Alcohol markers to 

colour the bear and girl then cut them out with scissors ( a die set is available though).

To make a simple background scene I brushed on a pale blue ink for the snow and 

then stamped trees from a couple of Flora & Fauna sets

I love this lettering... the words are from the Hugs stamp set by Concord & 9th,

I decided to stamp them out and trim around them... that way they can sit on top of the

 snowy sky which has been embossed using Altenew's Translucent Pearl Crisp embossing powder.

  

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Holiday Hugs

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Here is my last post on the Seven Hills Crafts blog for 2017. The shop closed yesterday until 27th of December.
And my last card for this year is - surprise, surprise -  a Christmas card.

I kept the colour scheme pretty monochromatic and went with shades of turquoise and grey - cool colours for a cool season.

I started by stamping, colouring with coloured pencils and fussy cutting the super cute bear hugging a girl from W Plus 9' Holiday Hugs.

To create the background I die cut a rectangle using Waffle Flower's Lacy Layers. I added some ink blending in aqua and some splotches of pink ink. I also created splotches of glitter. By accident I discovered that this works great with the Varnsih Marker. It is a liquid that is easy to spill. Then you can sprinkle glitter on it and it will glue to it.

For the sentiment I used Mama Elephant's Puffy Holiday Greetings. I heat embossed it in grey on a scrap of white cardstock.
Then I assembled the card using  grey cardbase.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in 2018!
Anni